10 Movies Where The Killer Never Gets Caught

Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder is based on true events and revolves around a detective, Park Doo-man (Song Kang-ho), who investigates a spree of murders in 1980s South Korea.

By film's end, at which point it skips forward almost 20 years to 2003 - the year of the film's release - the culprit is still at large as in real life, and Park is clearly haunted by his inability to solve the case.

In the chilling final scene, he returns to where the killer's first victim was discovered and meets a young girl who may have interacted with them, describing the possible killer as "plain" and "ordinary."

Park then stares directly at the audience, implying that we or someone watching the film with us could be the murderer.

Much like Zodiac, the film was beholden to the facts brought to light when it was being made, though in 2019 the killer, Lee Choon-jae, was finally caught, even if it was evidently over 15 years too late for the movie itself to have a neat and tidy ending.